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The opening of Clover Gardens Housing Project, four renovated properties on a prominent corner in Hartford’s Asylum Hill, marks another sign of revitalization in the neighborhood.
Reply Jan. 24, 2021 The Harc family mourns the passing on January 14 of Margaret Tedone, our beloved founder and leader. In 1951, Tedone and a group of friends founded The Hartford Association for Retarded Children, later renamed Harc, Inc. It was a time when children with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) were routinely 'put away' and warehoused in large state institutions. Bearing a child with an intellectual disability was often fraught with shame. Countless people were unaware of siblings living at Mansfield or Southbury State Training Schools. Tedone and her fellow parents...